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Free Download Richard Stoneman, "Ovid: Understanding Classics"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1848859309 | PDF | pages: 210 | 7.8 mb
Virgil, Horace and Ovid are often cited as the three great canonical poets of classical Roman literature. And of the three, arguably it is Ovid (43 BCE-CE 17/18) who has the most enduring legacy. Carole Newlands introduces her subject as an ancient author with a vital place in the modern cultural canon: and also as the inspiration behind figures as diverse as Chaucer, Titian, Dryden and Ted Hughes. She views Ovid as a Latin writer who is uniquely suitable for times of change: he appeals to postmodern sensibilities because of his interest in psychology, his fascination with cultural hybridity and his challenge to the conventional divide between animal and human. This book explores the connection between the historical poet and the works he produced: love elegies, the Metamorphoses and the Fasti. It shows that unlike Virgil – who wrote early in Augustus’ reign, anticipating a golden age of peace and prosperity – Ovid was a product of the late Augustan age: one of hardening autocracy and the greater influence of Tiberius behind the scenes. His elegies and erotic myths must therefore be understood as the result of complex, shifting political circumstances.

Free Download Maggie Kilgour, "Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0199589437, 0198717121 | PDF | pages: 398 | 2.4 mb
Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid contributes to our understanding of the Roman poet Ovid, the Renaissance writer Milton, and more broadly the transmission and transformation of classical traditions through history. It examines the ways in which Milton drew on Ovid’s oeuvre, as well as the long tradition of reception that had begun with Ovid himself, and argues that Ovid’s revision of the past, and especially his relation to Virgil, gave Renaissance writers a model for their own transformation of classical works. Throughout his career Milton thinks through and with Ovid, whose stories and figures inform his exploration of the limits and possibilities of creativity, change, and freedom.

Free Download Love Poems, Letters, and Remedies of Ovid by Publius Ovidius Naso, translated by David R. Slavitt
English | May 1, 2011 | ISBN: 0674059042 | True PDF | 384 pages | 1.2 MB
Widely praised for his recent translations of Boethius and Ariosto, David R. Slavitt returns to Ovid, once again bringing to the contemporary ear the spirited, idiomatic, audacious charms of this master poet.

Free Download Inner Affinity: Ovid, Titian, Philip of Spain
by Jean-Francois Corpataux, Elisabeth Dutton
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9789042951891 | 141 Pages | True PDF | 34 MB

Free Download A Commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Volume 3, Books 13-15 and Indices
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0521895812 | 475 Pages | PDF | 3.3 MB
Comprising fifteen books and over two hundred and fifty myths, Ovid’s Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential works in Western culture. It is an epic on desire and transgression that became a gateway to the entire world of pagan mythology and visual imagination. This, the first complete commentary in English, covers all aspects of the text – from textual interpretation to poetics, imagination, and ideology – and will be useful as a teaching aid and an orientation for those who are interested in the text and its reception. Historically, the poem’s audience includes readers interested in opera and ballet, psychology and sexuality, myth and painting, feminism and posthumanism, vegetarianism and metempsychosis (to name just a few outside the area of Classical Studies).

Free Download Ovid: Heroides XVI-XXI By E. J. Kenney
1996 | 282 Pages | ISBN: 0521460727 | PDF | 18 MB
This is an edition with commentary of six poems by the Roman poet Ovid. These are the letters, as Ovid imagined them, exchanged between three famous pairs of lovers, Paris and Helen of Troy, Hero and Leander, and Acontius and Cydippe. Interest in Ovid has never been more lively than it is today, and this book will have much to offer students at all levels. This is the first commentary in any language since 1898 on these "double" letters. It complements Peter E. Knox’s selection of the single epistles in the same series.

Free Download Giulia Sissa, "Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Environmental Imagination "
English | ISBN: 1350268941 | 2023 | 264 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book positions Ovid’s Metamorphoses as a foundational text in the western history of environmental thought. The poem is about new bodies. Stones, springs, plants and animals materialize out of human origins to create a world of hybrid objects, which retain varying degrees of human subjectivity while taking on new physical form. In bending the boundaries of known categories of being, these hybrid entities reveal both the porousness of human and other agencies as well as the dangers released by their fusion. Metamorphosis unsettles the category of the human within the complex ecologies that make up the world as we know it. Drawing on a range of modern environmental theorists and approaches, the contributors to this volume trace how the

Free Download Clare Pollard, "Ovid’s Heroines"
English | 2013 | pages: 112 | ISBN: 1852249765 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
Ovid’s Heroides, written in Rome some time between 25 and 16 BC, was once his most popular work. The title translates as Heroines, and it’s a series of poems in the voices of women from Greek and Roman myth – including Phaedra, Medea, Penelope and Ariadne – addressed to the men they love. It has been claimed as both the first book of dramatic monologues and the first of epistolary fiction. It’s also a radical text in its literary transvestism, and the way it often presents the same story from very different, subjective perspectives. For a long time it was Ovid’s most influential work, loved by Chaucer, Dante, Marlowe, Shakespeare and Donne, and translated by Dryden and Pope. Clare Pollard’s new translation rediscovers Ovid’s Heroines for the 21st century, with a cast of women who are brave, bitchy, sexy, suicidal, horrifying, heartbreaking and surprisingly modern. Two of the most popular poetry books of recent times have been Ted Hughes’s new version of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife, dramatic monologues by women from myth and history giving their side of the story. Clare Pollard’s new take on Ovid’s Heroines is another book in that vein, bringing classic tales to life for modern readers.